A Collection of Mixed Genre Stories: Sci-Fi, Alternate Universes, Time Travel, Supernatural, and More A science-fiction author tries to save the world from alien attack, alien visitors that only eat cancer, a baseball player travels back to the past, and a Secret Service Agent must protect his friend, the President, from destroying the White House. These are just a few of the new and fantastic tales that await you inside. From sci-fi to stark reality, these short stories will entertain, provoke, and whet your appetite for more. This collection contains not only serves up the best of Paul K. Metheney's short stories, but an all new menu of fresh tales to stimulate your literary palate. CONTENTS Foreign and Domestic A Secret Service agent must attack the President The Dark Knightmare Superhero, the fantasies of a comatose child, or something worse? A Wheelbarrow Full of Honey Will a redneck scientist thwart an alien invasion? Upon A Star Not your papa's Pinocchio More Powerful than a Locomotive Retired reporter from a metropolitan paper catches her extraordinary husband flying off to save the world The Other 1963 Two brothers clash in an alternate history The Truth in the Dark (What Lies in the Dark) Two modern tales combine the supernatural, serial killings, and a hidden truth. Cancer-Free Aliens can rid us of cancer, one way or the other Follicles, Fables & Follies Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down ... never mind A New York Yankee Time traveling baseball player upends King Arthur's court The Fall On the cliff's edge of suicide, a mortal questions God's power. The Bet Immortal entities wager on a man's choice of life or death. Carefree A motorcyclist's worries fly away while rolling Shock and Awww! Not everything in space is what it seems